The post Has Bitcoin Bottomed This Cycle? Analysts Say ‘Not Yet’ appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Bitcoin is trading in a market that’s getting harder to define. Hovering around $64,000 at the time of writing, Bitcoin is down by almost 50% from its cycle peak. That’s a much shallower draw down than previous cycles, but the bull run this time around did not reach the same heights. The 2025 rally was driven by exchange-traded fund (ETF) inflows, post-halving momentum and renewed institutional demand, pushing the market to a new all-time high of more than $126,000 in October 2025. Since then, the trend has been inexorably downward, but analysts are split on what that decline signifies. According to Standard Chartered and other bullish institutional desks, Bitcoin may have already reached its cycle bottom last month, with structural demand from ETFs and treasury companies, and improving long-term capital flows reducing the likelihood of a deeper draw down. Other analysts take a more ca
The post BlackRock (BLK) Launches Low-Cost IQQ ETF to Challenge Invesco’s QQQ Dominance appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Key Takeaways BlackRock debuts iShares Nasdaq 100 ETF (IQQ) on Thursday, July 9 The fund features a 0.10% expense ratio after fee waiver (through July 31, 2027), significantly below competitors Invesco’s dominant QQQ and QQQM funds hold over $500 billion combined, with fees at 0.18% and 0.15% respectively State Street’s QNDX also recently entered the Nasdaq-100 ETF arena BLK stock declined 0.4% in premarket session following the announcement; SpaceX (SPCX) recently became a Nasdaq-100 component BlackRock is making a bold move into one of Wall Street’s most lucrative ETF battlegrounds. The asset management titan will debut its iShares Nasdaq 100 ETF trading as IQQ on Thursday, July 9, mounting a direct challenge to Invesco’s decades-long dominance in Nasdaq-100 tracking funds. THERE WILL BE BLOOD: BlackRock and Stare Street have launched Nasdaq 100 ETFs. $IQQ and
The post Traders Sue Polymarket, CEO Coplan Over Strategy Market Decision appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Two Polymarket users sued the prediction-market platform, its holding entities and CEO Shayne Coplan in New York state court, alleging the site wrongly resolved a market on whether Strategy would sell Bitcoin. William Wood and Thomas Bush filed the complaint in the Supreme Court of the State of New… Two Polymarket users sued the prediction-market platform, its holding entities and CEO Shayne Coplan in New York state court, alleging the site wrongly resolved a market on whether Strategy would sell Bitcoin. William Wood and Thomas Bush filed the complaint in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, on July 3, under index number 158389/2026, according to the filing law firm Burwick Law posted on its X account. The plaintiffs held “Yes” shares in a market asking whether Strategy Inc. (formerly MicroStrategy) would sell any bitcoin by May 31, 2026. The compla
DOJ reviews legal authority for the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve with federal agencies. Treasury and Commerce continue discussions over oversight of national Bitcoin holdings. Congress considers BITCOIN and ARMA Acts to establish the reserve through legislation. The U.S. Department of Justice is working with the Treasury and Commerce departments to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve […]
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Two Polymarket users sued the prediction-market platform, its holding entities and CEO Shayne Coplan in New York state court, alleging the site wrongly resolved a market on whether Strategy would sell Bitcoin. William Wood and Thomas Bush filed the complaint in the Supreme Court of the State of New…
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Galaxy delivered 133 MW of critical IT load to CoreWeave under a 15-year lease. Helios shifted from Bitcoin mining into a revenue-generating AI data center campus. Phase II adds 260 MW as Galaxy targets over $1B in annual revenue from Helios. Galaxy has completed the first phase of power delivery at its Helios data center campus in West Texas. The milestone provides 133 megawatts of critical IT load to CoreWeave while transforming a former Bitcoin mining facility into a revenue-generating artificial intelligence infrastructure campus. Helios Completes First Phase of AI Infrastructure Galaxy announced the completion of Phase I at its Helios data center campus by delivering 133 megawatts of critical IT load to CoreWeave. The delivery also includes approximately 200 megawatts of gross power under a 15-year lease agreement signed between both companies. The company confirmed that Phase I reached compl
The post Bitcoin Retraces As Oil Tanker Attacks in Strait of Hormuz Escalate U.S.-Iran Tensions appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Bitcoin is down today, falling below the psychological $63,000 level after a rally above $64,000 yesterday. The drop below $63,000 today follows attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, a development that further escalates tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Bitcoin Falls Amid Attack On Oil Tankers In Strait of Hormuz In an X post, the UK Military Center revealed an attack on an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, with the tanker sustaining minor structural damage. This marked the second attack on an oil tanker in the Hormuz Strait today. The UK Military earlier reported about an oil tanker that also suffered structural damage. Meanwhile, there have now been attacks on vessels in the Strait in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin has retraced amid this development that again escalates tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with Qatar accusing Iran of being resp
APO lets a Bitcoin signature authorize any compatible UTXO rather than one fixed outpoint. It allows for rebindable pre-signed transactions for Lightning, vaults, and layer-2 protocols without new key management overhead.
